Equipment / Computing Capacity

The Materials Modelling Division is operating a number of small cluster computers:

QUISMAS (880 cores):

  • 30 nodes with 8 cores, Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.5 GHz, installed 12/2008
  • 20 nodes with 32 cores, AMD Opteron 6276 @ 2.3 GHz, added 2012

DABASCO (840 cores):

  • Intel X5675 @ 3.07GHz 70 nodes with 12 cores (installed 2011)

In addition, all employees in the department have additional access to the following national high-performance computers:

JUWELS Jülich

Lichtenberg-HHLR der TU Darmstadt

SuperMUC-NG Leibniz-Rechenzentrum München